Circassians

Circassians are a North Caucasian ethnic group native to Circassia (now in Russia's Adygea, Krasnodar Krai, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria). Since the end of the Russo-Circassian War in 1864, the Circassians were forced to flee to other lands, spreading to the Middle East to the south and Europe to the west. Today, as many as 6,000,000 live in Turkey, 720,000 in Russia, 180,000 in Jordan, 120,000 in Syria, and tens of thousands in the rest of the world.